[extropy-chat] i don't laugh at peasants anymore

[Al Brooks]

Morality, misinformation/disinformation are a concern, but extropian economics is a worry. You can't have an extropian future without extropian economies however very few are interested. They like the benefits of the present and future but want the pace of the past; they want a very clean environment but they want to live the Good Life; they want change but they want familial continuity; they want a national economy but they want Jose´ to build their home.
I've heard the same political and commercial advertising for 40 years, "2.9% growth this year, 1.7% next year. The gubernatorial candidate's press agent said today that taxes here must be lowered but taxes there must be raised..."; "Buy two bottles of pantheonutramine and you get the third bottle at no extra charge-- it will make you feel as if you just popped out of the womb". Will the same sort of commercials be on 40 years from now? 80? What is the meaning of cryonics? Will an ET get hold of remains in 2805 to display them in a museum?: "this specimen was frozen in the Earth Year 2005, precisely eight hundred EYs ago". And learning from mistakes isn't of course merely learning from one's own mistakes but also others'-- you wouldn't want to be like FM, thinking you are ageless when you're a coot, would you? It appears very embarrassing, it make's one think there is in fact something to growing old gracefully. Forty years ago I used to laugh at those ignorant peasants pictured in
 National Geographic living in the Hunza mountains, eating yogurt and bulgur wheat, drinking moonshine but living to be centenarians. If they came here would they laugh at us for buying expensive supplements and spending thousands to be frozen?
 





		
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